Category: social justice
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a complicated argument
It’s going to take many posts to make the argument about why teacher education is “failing.” See my post from yesterday The first thing I want to say is that I respect one of the impulses that drives people to support Trump, that is, the feeling that corporations are completely in control of government. This…
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First Donald Trump, Now This
My good friend Charles texted me that he had read about how Finland has much better teacher education, and the NY Times had an editorial stating that low quality teacher education in the US is the cause of well, I don’t know, monumentally STUPID people? (That’s not exactly what the Times said. That’s what I…
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Spring Valley High School and group-work
Okay, the events at Spring Valley High School are going to hijack the blog a little. I am so saddened by the way that discipline was handled in this case. That is, the case of a teacher managing his or her classroom so poorly that a policeman entered and arrested the student. The adolescents in…
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teaching about race and social class
This semester I’ve been teaching “the diversity course” to MAT students. My goal has been to facilitate students’ development of insights into how differences that appear natural, such as smartness in school, are actually socially constructed. It’s been tough at times, because while it’s not polite to talk about race publicly, it’s really not polite…
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Diversity Conference Forum
The Middle Georgia Diversity in Education Conference will be held at Georgia College on March 24, 2014. Dr. Thomas M. Philip of the UCLA Graduate School of Education will be the keynote speaker: Beyond Disaggregation: Examining and Addressing Racialization in Classrooms and Schools. The url for conference information and registration is http://diversityconference.gcsu.edu. At Georgia College…
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what’s up with this?
How am I going to write about this topic which makes me so very angry? What is it we think we’re doing as educators? This is for real, it affects children’s lives. If teachers don’t do the best for kids, they are harmed, and if a ghetto child gets poor teaching 3 years in a…